Sienna Miller: I jeopardised my career with my naughty behaviour

Baring all: Sienna Miller has been discussing her career lows with Esquire magazine (Picture: Tom Craig/Esquire)

Sienna Miller has conceded that the media circus surrounding her personal life when she was starting out in Hollywood was ‘bad’ and had a detrimental impact on her career.

The 32-year-old actress weathered a backlash in the mid noughties when it was alleged she had an affair with Daniel Craig while dating Jude Law. Her image was tarnished further when she later embarked on an affair with married father-of-four Balthazar Getty. She admits the resulting furore jeopardised her career.

‘It had become difficult for me to get the work I wanted, if I’m really honest,’ the mother-of-one confessed.

‘It was a weird situation to be in because there was a lot of goodwill for me in Hollywood. I think I’d been lucky in that I’d always been naughty in that town and people had always liked me for it.’

Her association with scandal made it more difficult to secure film roles, which Miller now appreciates with hindsight.

‘It was really bad. What was going on in my private life was not an easy thing to read about. People don’t want to see films with people they don’t approve of in them,’ she told the March issue of Esquire magazine.

Opening up: Miller confessed it was ‘difficult’ to find work when media attention around her personal life was at its peak (Picture: Tom Craig/Esquire)

Interviewed by the magazine’s editor Alex Bilmes, he insisted the actress hadn’t done ‘anything immoral’ in her life so fa, but she rejected this defence saying ‘No, no, no, I have’.

The Factory Girl star was left so overwhelmed by the media attention around her personal life she felt compelled to ‘disappear’.

‘I felt like I had no control over any aspect of my life, professionally or personally. So I deliberately disappeared. I was sick of myself, to be honest, or sick of that perception of me. It all felt so f***ing dirty,’ she told the men’s magazine.

Jude Law, 41, hit the headlines this week after discovering a family member had leaked details of his relationship with Miller to the News of the World.

The actor was presented with the news while giving evidence at the phone-hacking trial of the now defunct newspaper.

Miller is now engaged to 28-year-old actor Tom Sturridge and they have one daughter, 18-month-old Marlowe.

Cover girl: Miller features on the cover of the March edition of Esquire (Picture: Tom Craig/Esquire)

Read the full Sienna Miller interview in Esquire’s March issue, on sale Thursday 30 January. Also available as a digital edition.